Jones, Right Rev. William Basil

D.D. (University of Oxford, 1874), lord bishop of St. David's, Church of England; b. at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Eng., in the year 1822; was scholar of Trinity College, Oxford, 1840; Ireland scholar, 1842; graduated B. A. (second-cla cla ics) 1844, M.A. (Queen's College) 1847; was ordained deacon 1848, priest 1853; was Michel fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, 1848-51; fellow of University College, 1851-57; master of the schools, 1848; tutor of University College, 1854- 65; cla ical moderator, 1856 and 1860; select preacher at Oxford, 1860-62, 1866-67, 1876-78; at Cambridge, 1881; senior proctor, Oxford, 1861- 62; examining chaplain to the archbishop of York, 1861-74; public examiner in theology, 1870; cursal prebendary of St. David's Cathedral, 1859- 65; prebendary of Grindal in York Cathedral, 1863-71; perpetual curate of Haxby, Yorkshire, 1863-65; vicar of Bishop thorpe with Middle thorpe, 1865-74; archdeacon of York, 1867-74; rural dean of Bishop thorpe, 1869-74, and of the city of York, 1873-74; chancellor of York Cathedral, and prebendary of Laughton-en-le-Morthen, 1871-74; canon residentiary of York, 1873-74; consecrated bishop, 1874. He is the author of Vestiges of the Gael in Gwynedd, London, 1851; Christ College, Brecon, its History and Capabilities considered with Reference to a Measure now before Parliament, 1853; The History and Antiquities of St. David's (conjointly with E. A. Freeman, LL.D.), 1856; Notes on the (Edipus Tyrannus of Sophocles, adapted to the Text of Dindorf 1862, 2d ed. 1869; The Clergyman's Office (a sermon), 1864; The New Testament illustrated with a Plain Explanatory Commentary for Private Reading (with Archdeacon Churton), 1865; Judgment, Mercy, and Faith (University sermon), 1866; The Mystery of Iniquity (University sermons), 1867; The Peace of God, Sermons on the Reconciliation of God and Man, 1869, 2d ed. 1885; Commentary on St. Luke in The Bible (Speaker's) Commentary, 1878; visitation charges; papers in literary and antiquarian journals; contributions to Smith's Dictionary of the Bible.